Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-28
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

silver dollars last week. ..@.s .%: :
Lord Harrington has written a letter
in support of Mr.. Goschen for Parlia
ment. H. e "sf'"y %-..rf 80
Immigrants have arrived in the Uni
ted States this year at the rate of 1000
a day.
Emin Bey has freed from the slav
trade province containing 100000
inhabitants.
A tenant named Keane in County
Kerry, Ireland, was shot for paying
his rent.
Emperor William is deeply chagrined
over the rejection by the Reichstag of
the Septenate bill.
Charles B. Farwell's nomination to
the United States senate is said to have
cost him not less than $4,000.
A citizen of St. Thomas, Ont. ex
pended 500 dollars in lawyers fees and
costs in collecting debt of $50.
Archdcacon Farrar says that Gin
India the English have ma one hum
dred drunkards for one Christian.
The son of the late Earl of Iddes-
leigh denies that his father had any
quarrel with Lord Randolph Churchill
A telephone service between Paris
and Brussels will be in operation during
January, and it is proposed to extend
it to Cologne. f.
Minister McLane has been invited to
visit England during the jubilee because
he danced with Victoria when his faith
er was Minister under Jackson.
Herr Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minis
ter, has rendered the office of Minister
of Finance in the Hungarian Cabinet to
the brother of Count Andrassy.
The wife of President Mousanet of
the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus
railway, was caught stealing dry goods
in a Cleveland store the other day.
The name of Connecticut Salvation
list is ''Little Johnny Bull, the devil
killer, man-slayer, devil-hater, and son
of a king, fresh from the old country"
The winter carnival at Montreal will
be held from Feb. 7 to -. The ice
castle will inclose an area of $4,000
square feet and be of an entirely new
design.
Scion Chase, the distinguished
Greenbacker of Maine, has been left
homeless by fire and fund has been
started at Lewiston, Me-. for his re-
lief
In a speech at {; banquet given in
Paris to celebrate the capture of York
town, United States Minister McLane
spoke in the highest terms of Gen
Boulanger.
Miss Brinck, Swede, and Miss Van
Overbeke are among the ladies who
have registered this year after passing
the examinations of the Irish College of
Physicians.
1.-The gross mineral output of Montana
last year was $24,000,OOO. of which
there was $3,500,0O0, in gold, $7,00O,-
900 in copper, and $13,500,OO0 in sill
yer.
Mrs. Leland Stanford of California is
erecting in Albany, n. Y, a home for
the aged poor and day nursery for
children of poor working-women as a
memorial to her parents.
The late Truman NJ. Post of St. Louis,
the pioneer of Congregationalism in the
West, learned Latin from grammar
fastened to the handle of his pillow when
a farm-boy in Vermont.
The Montreal Herald says that
Americans need not be afraid of
Canada. They are not afraid of
Canada. They are afraid of their own
State Departments York; Iribune.
The greatest bicycle race of this or
any other country took place at Min
neapolis. 1t was a six-day contest, and
during that time Albert Schock rode
1,405 miles on his bicycle, breaking all
the previous records. One of his COM
petitors, Miss Armaindo, rode 1,O49
miles.
A long-forgotten portrait of Byron,
painted at Venice in 1916 by Natalie
Schiavoni and representing the poet
seated at a table, smoking, and
wearing high hat and voluminous
cloak, has been discovered among some
unappreciated relies at Fiume, Hun
gary.
Mrs. Senator Stanford is said to have
worn jewels worth 100000 at the
White House reception last Thursday
night. Mrs. Frank Leslie's Jewels also
attracted attention. She wore her
celebrated diamonds, the size of birds
eggs in her ears, and her corsage was
one great blaze of rare gems.
The Duke of Sutherland, who is now
in this country. owns very large tracts
of land in the United States, aggregat-
ing, it is said, 425,0O acres. His pos
sessions in Great Britain cover over L.
258,545 acres, yielding an income of
$708,5S5. He also has $1,5OO,OOO in
vested in Scotch railroad. He is the
owner of Dunrobin Castle, Loeb Inver
House, House of Tongue. Tarbet House
aud Castle Leod, all in Scotland, and
Stafford House, Trentham Hall, Lille
shall Hall, and Chiefden, in England.
An Odd Fxperience,